Trucks for track fastening devices



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Filed Dec. 27, 1954 June 3, 1958 c. E. GODFREY EI'AL 2,337,033

TRUCKS FOR TRACK FASTENING DEVICES Filed Dec. 27, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG.3

INVENTOR CHARLES E. GODFREY WES LEY T JOHNSON'DJR- BY %%0M6 @W/ ATTORNEYS United States Patent ice TRUCKS FOR TRACK FASTENING DEVICES Charles E. Godfrey, Lombard, and Wesley T. Johnson,

Jr., Chicago, Ill., assignors to American Brake Shoe Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application December 27, 1954, Serial No. 477,662

4 Claims. (Cl. 105162) to the task so that there is a division of labor with some workmen partially setting the spikes while others drive the spikes completely home.

In United States Patent No. 2,401,967, patented June ll, 19 .6, there is disclosed a rail fastening device in the form of a stud adapted to be loosely set in a pre-bored socket in the tie that registers with an opening in the tie plate overlying the tie, and such studs have specially adapted shanks that lock in the opening in the tie plate when fully driven home. It has been customary in setting studs of this kind for one workman first to distribute the studs, for another to position the studs loosely in the registered openings of the tie plate and the tie and then to tap the studs thus set so that there is a firm purchase of the stud with the tie enabling another workman to accurately drive the stud fully home.

It will be recognized from the foregoing that whether spikes or studs be used as rail fastening devices, the customary procedure in either case is for a workman to first locate the rail fastening device in position to finally be driven home in a subsequent operation. It has been proposed Where spikes are to be utilized that this initial setting procedure be expedited by afiording a hopper for the spikes on a truck pedally propelled by a workman straddling one rail from a seat on the truck, the arrangement being such as to enable a spike to be selected, set in place, and partially driven home by the workman propelling the truck. With such trucks it is necessary that there be sufficient space between the storage bin or hopper and the position occupied by the workman to enable the workman to manipulate a sledge While partially driving the spike home. As a consequence of this, a great deal of motion is entailed by the workman first in leaning forward to select a spike and then returning to position whereat the sledge may be manipulated. Such motions are, of course, repeated each time a spike is to be driven.

The primary object of the present invention is to enable studs of the foregoing kind to be transported in a truck pedally propelled along a railway by a workman who needs merely select and position a stud in the pre-bored hole of the tie without the wasted efiorts entailed with trucks of this kind as heretofore constructed for the placement of spikes.

Fastening elements for rails of a railway are customarily shipped in kegs, and in the instance of spikes these kegs have had to be emptied into the aforementioned hopper carried by the truck. This requires a hopper of excessive height such that a great deal of effort is required to fill this hopper from a keg or the like. Therefore, it would be advantageous to eliminate such unloading procedures, and a further object of the present invention is to afford a pedally propelled truck for transporting rail fastening 2,837,933 Patented June 3, 1958 studs wherein the keg in which the studs are shipped may be cradled on the truck with one end tilted in the direction of the workman sitting on the truck, and to afford abin between the cradled keg and the workman into which studs in the keg may spill so as to be within ready reach of the workman sitting on the truck; and a further object of the present invention is to confine the studs in the aforesaid bin so that these do not spill out on the railroad bed.

Another object of the present invention is to enable access to be had to bagged or boxed track material such as rail anchors or the like where these are to be installed separately or in conjunction with studs cradled in the truck as aforesaid.

The truck of the present invention includes an outrigger having a wheel adapted to travel on one rail of the railway, and a further object is to ballast the outrigger so that the truck will not upset where the road is banked.

Other and further objects of the present invention will be apparent from the following description and claims and are illustrated in the accompanying drawings which, by Way of illustration, show a preferred embodiment of the present invention and the principles thereof and what we now consider to be the best mode in which we have contemplated applying these principles. Other embodiments of the inventions embodying the same or equivalent principles may be used and structural changes may be made as desired by those skilled in the art without departing from the present invention and the purview of the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the truck of the present invention disposed to travel on the rails of a railway;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the truck shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is an elevation of the truck taken in the direction of the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

The truck of the present invention includes a main frame comprising a pair of elongated laterally spaced angle bars 20 and 21, having vertical flanges 20V and 21V, respectively, Fig. 3, which are connected one to the other by angle cross bars 25, 26 and 27 as shown in Fig. 2. The vertical flanges of the angle bars 20 and 21 are spaced laterally apart a distance greater than the width of the head HL of the rail LR, Pig. 3', over which the main frame of the truck is to travel. At either end of the main frame there are axles extended between the angle bars 2t and 21 rotatably supporting flanged wheels 30 and 31 adapted to travel on the head of the rail LR.

At what constitute intermediate portions of the main frame, a pair of tubular sockets 35 and 36, Fig. 3, are fixed respectively to the outwardly disposed faces of the longitudinal bars 20 and 21, these sockets being axially aligned. A tubular outrigger 37 has one end thereof inserted in the socket 36 which opens toward the opposite rail RR of the railway, and this outrigger is held in the socket 36 by set screws or the like in a conventional manner. The outrigger 37 extends transversely between the rails LR and RR, and the end that is disposed over the rail RR includes an axle as shown in Fig. 3 which rotatably supports an unfianged wheel 38 in position to travel on the head HR of the rail RR. It will be appreciated that provision of the pair of sockets 35 and 36 enables the outrigger 37 to be reversably arranged on the main frame so that the wheel 38 may ride on rail opposite the flanged Wheels 30 and 31.

The truck is to be pedally propelled by a workman sitting on a seat 40 at the end of the truck which is adjacent the flanged wheel 31. The seat 49 is attached to the main frame by round headed bolts 41 passed through corresponding openings provided in the seat 40 and in the upwardly disposed faces of the horizontal flanges H and 21H, respectively, of the angle bars 20 and 21. Spacer collars 42 are provided on the portions'of the bolt shanks that extend below the flanges 261-1 and 21H, and retainer nuts 43 are utilized at the. lower ends of the bolts 41 to hold the seat in position. If desired, the bars 20 and 21 maybe provided with longitudinal slots in the horizontal flanges thereof to enable the seat 40 to be adjustably positioned on the main frame.

In accordance with the present invention, standards as 45 and 46 are arranged in spaced relation at either side of the main frame forwardly of the seat 40 to support a keg KG in which the rail fastening studs are shipped, the arrangement being such that the keg is tilted downwardly toward the seat 40. Thus, the standard 45 is arranged at the end of the main frame adjacent the flanged wheel 30, and this standard comprises a pair of angle posts 48 and 49 welded to the upwardly disposed faces of the horizontal flanges 20H and 21H of the angle bars 26) and 21. The lower ends of the posts 48 and 49 are mitered, so that these posts welded to the iongitudinal bars 2t) and 21 diverge outwardly in a vertical upward direction as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The standard 46 likewise comprises a pair of angle posts 50 and 51 having the lower ends that are welded to the horizontal flanges of the bars 20 and 21 rnitered so that these too diverge outwardly in a vertical upward direction generally in alignment with the posts 48 and 49.

Welded to the inwardly facing vertical edges 48E and 49E, Fig. 3, of the rearward vertical posts 48 and 49, there is a cross member in the form of an angle bar 54; The opposite side edges of the cross bar 54 are mitered so as to mate with the diverging posts 48 and 49 and the free edge of the vertical flange 54V, Fig. 4, of this cross member is'provided with an arcuate recess 54A, Figs. 1 and 4 serving in part as a cradle for supporting the rounded rear end portion of the keg KG.

There is likewise a cross member in the form of an L angle bar 55 associated with the standard 46, this. cross member being below the bar '54 and having mitered ends welded to the inner opposed faces of the posts 50 and 51 so as to extend therebetween. The cross member 55 is so arranged between the posts 50 and 51 that the vertical flange 55V, Fig. 1, thereof is tilted rearwardly in the direction of the seat 40, and the angle of this tilt is such that the. end of the keg KG disposed toward the seat 40 will be accurately cradled in the trough of the cross member 55 as best shown in Fig. 2. keg as KG between the standards 45 and 46 is further facilitated by rounding at 50R and 51R, Fig. 4, edge portions of the inwardly disposed flanges of the angle posts 50 and 51 where these portions are opposite the sides of a keg as KG.

When a keg as KG. containing studs is first opened and then cradled in the standards 45 and 46 with the opened end disposed toward the seat 40, the fastening devices such as the aforementioned studs tend to spill by gravity there-from. To receive the studs, a bin is afforded on the truck between the standard 46 and the .seat 40 so that these studs are within easy reach of the operator. The bin 6 includes a pair of side Walls 61 and 62. The side walls 61 and 62 of the bin 60 have lower horizontal edges as 63, Fig. 2, which extend along the outer margins of the horizontal flanges 281-1 and of the main frame. The side walls 61 and 62 have vertical forward edges as 64 substantially the height of the standard 46, and these forward edges of the bin 6% are squared with respect to the lower edges 63 thereof so that forward portions of the side walls 61 and 62 may be retained flush against the flanges the vertiealposts 5% and 51- which are disposed outwardly.

' Pbrtions 65 at the top of the side walls 61 and 62 included in the bin 60 extend rearwardly parallel with the lower edges 63 and then at 65A are inclined down- Accurate cradling of a wardly at a relatively sharp angle so as to effectively mask the end of the bin 60 where the studs emit from the opened end of a keg as KG. Rearwardly of the top edge portions 65A are other portions 66 which are inclined downwardly at a less acute angle, and these portions 66 terminate at relatively short end portions 67 Welded tothc respective outwardly disposed flanges of a pair of angle brackets 71 and 72, Fig. 1, welded to the horizontal flanges of the angle bars 20 and 21 immediately in front of the seat 40. I

Secured to the faces of the angle brackets 71 and 72 which are disposed toward the seat 40 is a plate 75 serving as an end wall for the bin 60. At the opposite end of the bin is a plate 76 serving as the other end wall thereof, and this plate is secured to the faces of the angle posts 5t and 51 which are disposed toward the rear standard 45. V

A relatively narrow bottom wall plate, 77, Fig. 3, is also afforded for the bin 60 between theend and side walls, and this bottom wall is supported by the horizontal flanges of the cross bars 26 and 27 which tie together the longitudinal angle bars 20 and 21. It will be seen from the foregoing that the pin 60 is inclusive of a rela-,

tively large volume and is of such dimensions as to assure that the studs spilled from a keg as KG are retained therein within easy reach of the operator. Preferably, the top edges of the pin 60 corresponding to the portions 66 thereof are folded over as at 66F, Fig. 1, so that there are no sharp edges presented to the operator selecting a stud from the bin 60.

To establish the truck, a ballast box 80, Fig. 4, is welded to the outrigger 37 as close as practical to the wheel 38, and when a keg asKG is opened a portion of the studs contained therein may be dumped into the ballast box 80. 7

Under some circumstances, track material such as rail anchorscontained in bags or the like may be used by the operator, and a horizontal shelf 86 for such material is preferably arranged between the standards 45 and 46 below the cradle for the kegs as KG. In the present instance, the shelf 86 is supported at either side by runners in the form of angle bars as 87 extended between the standards 45 and 46, such runners being welded at one end to the inwardly extending flanges of the posts 48 and 49 and at the opposite end to the plate 75 represent ing one end wall of the bin 60.

Thus, while we have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of our invention, it is to be understood that this is capable of variation and modification, and we therefore do not wish to be limited to the precise details set forth, but desire to avail ourselves ofsuch changes and alterations as fall within the purview of the following claims.

We claim:

1. In a truck for transporting studs or like track fastening devices along a railway, a main frame having wheels adapted to travel on one rail of the railway, means on said frame for carrying a wheel adapted to travel on the other rail of the railway, a seat adjacent one end of the main frame on which an operator may sit to straddle the main frame and pedally propel the truck along the railway to each position whereat such fastening devices are to be used, a pair of spaced'apart standards arranged vertically on the main frame, means on one of the standards above the main frame affording a support for one end of a container containing such fastening devices," means on the other of said standards above the main frame aifording'a support for the other end of said container, said supports being so arranged that the container, when supported thereby, will be inclined downwardly in the direction of said seat, and a bin on the main frame between said seat and the standard more adjacent thereto for receiving fastening devices spilled from said container, said bin having one end wall immediately in front of the seat and another end Wall terminating at the said more adjacent standard.

2. In a truck for transporting studs or like track fastening devices along a railway, a main frame having wheels adapted to travel on one rail of the railway, means on said frame for carrying a Wheel adapted to travel on the other rail of the railway, a seat adjacent one end of the main frar e on which an operator may sit to straddle the main frame and pedally propel the truck along the railway to each position Whereat such fastening devices are to be used, a pair of spaced apart standards arranged vertically on the main frame, means on one of the standards above the main frame affording a support for one end of a container containing such fastening devices, means on the other of said standards above the main frame affording a support for the other end of said container, said supports being so arranged that the container, when supported thereby, will be inclined downwardly in the direction of said seat, a bin on the main frame between said seat and the standard more adjacent thereto for receiving fastening devices spilled from said container, and a horizontal shelf extended between said standards.

3. In a truck for transporting studs or like track fastening devices along a railway, a main frame having at either end a wheel adapted to travel on one rail of the railway, means on said frame for carrying a Wheel adapted to travel on the other rail of the railway, a seat adjacent one end of the main frame on which an operator may sit to straddle the main frame and pedally propel the truck along the railway to each position whereat such fastening devices are to be used, a pair of spaced apart standards arranged vertically on the main frame, a supporting bar on one of the standards above the main frame adapted to support one end of a container containing such fastening devices, a supporting bar on the other of the standards above the main frame adapted to support the other end of said container, the one of said supporting bars which is closer said seat being below the other of said supporting bars so that the container, when supported thereby, will be inclined downwardly in the direction of said seat,

S and a bin carried by the main frame including an end wall immediately adjacent the standard closer said seat so that fastening devices spilled from said container into said bin are within easy reach of the operator on said seat.

4. In a truck for transporting studs or like track fastening devices along a railway, a main frame having wheels thereon adapted to travel on one rail of the railway, an outrigger carried at one end by said main frame and having a wheel at the opposite end thereof adapted to travel on the other rail of the railway, a seat on which an operator may sit to straddle the main frame and pedally propel the truck along the railway to each position whereat such fastening devices are to be used, spaced apart standards arranged vertically on said main frame and including supporting means thereon adapted to cradle a keg or like container containing such fastening devices, a shelf extended between said standards and below the supporting means thereon, a ballast box on said outrigger adjacent the wheel carried thereby, and a bin located on the main frame intermediate said seat and the one of the standards which is closer said seat, said bin including side walls and a bottom wall extended along said main frame, an end wall for the bin immediately adjacent the one of the standards which is closer said seat, and an end wall for the bin immediately adjacent said seat so that fastening devices spilled into said bin from the container when supported as aforesaid will be within easy reach of the operator sitting on said seat.

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